From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Fragment ID wrap workaround (read-only, untested). Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:02:49 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040715190249.01a9c11e.ak@suse.de> References: <20040715182735.3787c8b1.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, rusty@au1.ibm.com Return-path: To: David Stevens In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:54:53 -0700 David Stevens wrote: > I agree that NFS over UDP should be dead as soon as possible, > and fragmentation in general not far behind it. They aren't quite > dead yet; until they are, why not make them better behaved? And > if your argument is that it isn't worth fixing because it isn't I wouldn't go that far, just make extremly sure that any solution works on slow links too. The problem I see is that if you make the delay factor long enough to make the extremly variable links not regress you risk making the wrap on very fast links likely again. -Andi